Do the people of Greece and Rome now believe in this false religion? […] I have read of very fine houses which were in Greece and Rome. […] The same worship was called the Brumalia at Rome; but the Roman people, like the early Greeks, got drunk at these celebrations, and the senate abolished the rites of Bacchus. […] About three hundred years ago, it was dug up from among some ruins in Antium, near Rome. […] Guido’s painting is the splendid embellishment of a ceiling in the Palazzo Respigliosi, at Rome.

Ovid relates one in connexion with the luxury of Rome, and in which the hospitality of Baucis and Philemon saved them from the fate of their friends. […] The worship of Vulcan was well established, particularly in Egypt, at Athens, and at Rome. […] In the month of August, the Vulcanalia took place at Rome, streets were illuminated, fires kindled, and animals thrown into the flames as a sacrifice. […] ‌ His most celebrated temple at Rome, was built by Augustus, after the battle of Phillippi, and was dedicated to “Mars the avenger.” […] When however his worship was introduced into Rome, he became more the God of Orchards and Gardens, than the patron of licentiousness.